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Zika virus 'could be on its way to Europe', warns UN health agency
Harriet Alexander, new york
26 APRIL 2016 ? 10:02AM
Europe should brace itself for the arrival of the Zika virus, the UN?s health agency warned on Monday, as warmer temperatures bring an increase in mosquito numbers.
Zika cases are on the decline in Brazil, the country hardest hit by the outbreak, as the southern hemisphere enters autumn. But the European summer will usher in a "marked increase" in Zika infections, said Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director general of the World Health Organisation.
"As seasonal temperatures begin to rise in Europe, two species of Aedes mosquito which we know transmit the virus will begin to circulate," she told a Zika science conference in Paris. "The mosquito knows no borders."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-on-its-way-to-europe-warns-un-health-agency/
Harriet Alexander, new york
26 APRIL 2016 ? 10:02AM
Europe should brace itself for the arrival of the Zika virus, the UN?s health agency warned on Monday, as warmer temperatures bring an increase in mosquito numbers.
Zika cases are on the decline in Brazil, the country hardest hit by the outbreak, as the southern hemisphere enters autumn. But the European summer will usher in a "marked increase" in Zika infections, said Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director general of the World Health Organisation.
"As seasonal temperatures begin to rise in Europe, two species of Aedes mosquito which we know transmit the virus will begin to circulate," she told a Zika science conference in Paris. "The mosquito knows no borders."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-on-its-way-to-europe-warns-un-health-agency/